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To: Tallguy
Carriers are fragile.

You are kidding right? Carriers are tough SOBs. Even target ones are almost impossible to put under. They are huge honey combs of watertight compartments.

36 posted on 02/13/2016 10:07:23 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Yes, they are hard to sink. But if a carrier can’t make speed, or its catapaults or elevators go down its a “mission kill”. If she goes dead too far from home, your own ships will be sinking her as happened more than a couple times in WW2.


52 posted on 02/13/2016 6:19:57 PM PST by Tallguy
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